because i mean the position of the bulgarian president is that not everything is as clear as they say and that it is possible to consider the scenario of some negotiations in the future between ukraine and russia, that ukraine is not capable of defeating russia, the position of the government is absolutely pro-european, the opposite, that it is necessary to support ukraine, so i do not rule out that this is related, and there is still a technical point, to prepare them for shipment, to check their condition and so on... the news that arrived literally a few minutes before the broadcast with reference actually to the french media, we can say that the minister of defense of ukraine rustem omerov canceled his visit to france for the launch of the artillery coalition, which was planned for today, and kyiv allegedly took such a step for security reasons, this is a short phrase, a short quote of how it is explained, how would you comment, and what might actually mean these security considerations, due to which the ukrainian minister of defense could not go to france in person, but will join this via video link. coalition, i don't know

the real reasons why, what caused this failure, not very good, i think, because i will say that in france i know that a number of solutions are being prepared, some french campaigns, i know, let's say, representatives of these companies, and i spoke with them, who are planning to open in the spring of this year , well, let's say this, their representative offices in ukraine, which... work precisely in artillery, in missile weapons, and so on, which have solutions for the implementation of artificial intelligence systems in aiming systems and improving the operation of artillery for caesars and other systems, that is, therefore this is an artillery coalition, and france is actively involved, not sure for what reasons really, but i don't think it 's a positive, a positive sign, but it's good that it's going to happen online at least, yes, and i hope it doesn't affect the bottom line.

well, the very content of the agreements, because they are very important for us, there are good, serious solutions for improving the work of artillery, especially the caesar systems, improving their range, aiming, which we really need in counter-battery combat. minister of strategic industry kamyshen said that ukraine has successfully applied hybrid anti-aircraft defense, destroying a mine from a distance of 9 km. if you know the possible details of which pppo we are talking about, is it some kind of modernized pppo, that is? what is meant and how does it work? i assume exactly about this case, which i am not aware of, but i can also assume that these are the same systems, the so-called frankensensen, when, well , they started last year, i will say very simply and briefly: we have systems buk, anti-aircraft missile complexes, which are very effective, to tell the truth, because they cover positions on the front, and they able to work on aircraft,

missiles, and drones, and they are quite mobile and fast, but the situation was that we were running out of missiles in warehouses, and you could only buy them in russia now, because everything that was possible was supplied to us by other countries, of course, no one from almaz anteya would buy it, so they found a solution to convert the sespero missiles, which are in the united states, to the needs of the buk, and they began to work effectively and give results and... wash for a certain period of time and destroy air targets, this a good example, let's say, of cooperation and mutual exchange of capabilities and technologies, not even the production of some new weapons, but simply the adaptation of our existing weapons to those technological solutions that the united states can offer. a few more questions, because in reality there is not much time, but i would like to hear your analysis, yesterday medvedev stated that, in fact, russia, as i understand it, can start a second attack

on ukraine in 10 or 50 years , that is, russia does not recognize independent ukraine as such, although in 1991 russia was in the top ten states that recognized ukrainian independence, how should a large-scale russian-ukrainian war end in this perspective in order to prevent future attacks from russia, this is, if possible, a short answer , without internal, without internal political changes in russia, without a change in consciousness that one must live in the 21st century, not the 19th, as a neo-imperial aggressor. it is unlikely that anything will change, but let's move on to one more topic, which i propose to listen to now and yours analysts can also be heard in the russian city of baimak, the administrative center of the republic of bashkurtostan, that a large-scale protest broke out in the southern urals the day before, several thousand people came out to support the local activist, the leader of the nationalist organization kukbuil alsynov, who was sentenced to four years in prison in the coalition, in a colony on charges of in extremism. he previously participated in protests against... gold mining

in the republic itself and, according to the investigation, in one of his public speeches allegedly called migrants who work in the mine in the mines of the region as black people, alsymov himself denies it, and people... who support him believe that this is a wrong translation from the bashkar language. for several days, the protestors went to the court where the case was being heard, and after the verdict, clashes started there. according to the telegram channel sota , the police used tear gas and stun grenades against the protesters. several people were injured. look, they are beating, why? what are you doing? an hour and a half before the court decision, within a radius of several kilometers the internet was turned off, and the pages of bashkir publics were blocked in social networks, at one point the rally participants surrounded the omonov residents, after negotiations between security forces and protesters, an action took place near the walls of the court and it ended, however, the investigative

committee of russia has already announced that they have initiated proceedings for mass disturbances and the use of force against protesters and representatives of the authorities in baymak, the deputy of the state duma of russia from... bashkortostan dinnar gilmudtino has already stated that they are involved in the organization of the protests foreign special services that operated from the territory of ukraine and the baltic countries, here in this context we still have a minute of time left, i would like to hear your analysis of what is actually happening there, what could be behind these protests and what could it lead to? well, definitely not with the participation of ukraine , i think, or the baltic countries, in fact, this is a protest of the indigenous people, the bashkirs, you know that they put forward demands that... they are just there environmental demands, it all started with that, then they now they are demanding the release of the activist and they are already starting to be political requirements, because they are also against the svo. by the way, alsynov himself spoke in his speech and asked why we participate in this war, what it gives to the bashkirs. it's a wake-up call for the kremlin, because it's not just some

, you know, political stand-up, it's also about indigenous rights, and i think it's important because we've seen clashes, we 've seen mass protests, and we've seen , that... well, the situation is really serious and it has not disappeared anywhere, because this situation has been going on for nine months, i thank you for your analysis, i would like to remind you that the guest of our broadcast oleksandr musienko, head of the center for military and legal research, we talked about the events in russia, actually, and we talked about the events in ukraine and on the international arena, what can we expect next? this is the svoboda ranok project, a project about important things, and further on in our broadcast, in particular you from... you can see the following topics. the sbu seized discs with recordings of cameras in the complex, where the bigusinfo team secretly filmed. this was reported by journalists and investigators from the scene. this was preceded by the opening of criminal proceedings based on the fact of illegality listening to journalists of the project. for more than

a day, the movement of trucks through the yagodin dorogusk checkpoint, which was previously blocked by polish carriers, has been resumed. is it possible to repeat the blockade and what is the situation at the checkpoints with other countries? in the comments , write the topics that interest you, maybe they will become the topics of our broadcast, and also share this broadcast with your friends so that they do not miss the most interesting things. the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, reacted to the monitoring of journalists by the bigusinfo project. in in his evening address, he stated that any pressure on journalists is unacceptable during the supreme commander-in-chief's regular campaign, the president has a meeting with the head of the security service of ukraine, in particular... this issue, and regarding the situation with our journalists, in particular the fact of monitoring journalists, the security service of ukraine has started an investigation and will find out all the circumstances, any pressure on journalists is unacceptable. the security service of ukraine started

an investigation the day before due to illegal wiretapping and video recording. the special service stated that transparent and unimpeded work of independent and professional media is an important condition for the development of ukraine. democratic state, it was a quote. the department also added that regardless of whether possible violations of the law on drug trafficking were recorded, the fact of monitoring journalists should receive a legal assessment. alisa yurchenko, host and journalist of the biguusinfo project, reported on facebook that the sbu has already seized media with camera recordings on which those who installed hidden video surveillance could have been recorded. however bigusinfo journalists are not victims of the sbu proceedings, instead, bigusinfo submitted statements to the national police about obstruction of journalistic activity, interference in private life and violation of the confidentiality of telephone conversations, but the proceedings have not yet been registered, although the source of rfe /rl in the national police reported that the investigator on in connection with the lawyers of the bigusinfo project , criminal proceedings are being prepared, they say it may be more than one. i would like to remind you that

the day before, footage appeared on the network in which part of the biusinfo team, namely operators and employees of the social networks of the project seem to smoke first, then use probably narcotic substances later. the video was published. two little-known websites are ord and narodna pravda. the video also appeared on the youtube channel of the same name. the footage includes fragments of recordings of telephone conversations in which the possibility of purchasing drugs is discussed. denis bigu. the founder of the investigative journalism project , based on audio recordings from the merged video, concluded that the team had been monitored for months. in the office of the prosecutor general of radio svoboda informed that they will carry out procedural management over this case. yaroslav yurchyshyn, head of the verkhovna rada committee on freedom of speech, also addressed the office of the prosecutor general and the sbu with a parliamentary request regarding illegal surveillance of journalists. mediarruh independent association of journalists and. media in the organization called to protect freedom of speech and stop provocations against

journalists. mediarukh reminded that in the last few days there have been attacks on journalists project our money, yuriy nikolova, on biguus-info, and also on media detector, ukrainian pravda, mirror of the week, hb, censor, babel, ligunet and espresso. this is an important topic. in the comments, write what you think about the events that are taking place and whether you really consider it for yourself as a pressure on freedom of speech in ukraine and in particular on independent journalists. alisa yurchenko, deputy editor-in-chief of bigusinfo, is currently joining our broadcast by phone. alisa, i congratulate you. good day. what is the news as of now, has it opened yet maybe the police are following the sbu? so. so. the national police has already opened proceedings based on the statement of the journalist maria zemlyanska, who lived in one of the houses, the actual video inside of which you saw on the drain tanks. and... maria just lived there, did nothing wrong, she wrote, she is a journalist, she

also wrote a statement, many other members of our team wrote a statement, now open proceedings, one of the proceedings of the national police. alisa, a very important point, if you know, regarding the proceedings of the service itself of the security of ukraine, in what status are the representatives of the bigusinfo team, because it is known that they are not there on a different status, they are not identified as victims there. we will address this, but it is important to understand that at the moment when the security service took video evidence from the video for all the days when other people, who have not yet been established, installed cameras on the numbers, at that moment the security service of ukraine acted on its own initiative, she herself opened this criminal proceeding, we did not contact the security service of ukraine, because the articles, for which we contacted, they are not investigative services. to the security service, the service opened this case because of the alleged non-illegal

use of special technical means, ah, and actually we really hope that the security service identifies all those people that they already have on this video and that this video does not disappear now . alisa, please clarify, when we talk about surveillance cameras, are we talking about those that were in this complex to monitor the situation, or are they separate? let me be clear, sorry to be in a bit of a hurry, it says about the legal video cameras that stood on the territory of the institution in completely neutral places, on the gates, for example, there are several gates for driving in, etc., for example, they did not look at the house at all, the video from the outside of which and from the inside of which was displayed in spiteful tanks , the more so the institution at... there are no cameras inside the rooms, we actually checked it, in particular yesterday,

there were no cameras from the institution inside the rooms, we can absolutely definitely, let’s stop for now from this part of the investigation, which we have already conducted ourselves, talk about what and large groups of people checked into this complex, exactly in the rooms that we booked for december 27, checked in the day before ah... and then ah left on the day we checked in, leaving behind one of the rooms in which we did not live, and then it happened even after we had already left the next day, other people moved into our same rooms, so yes, it was a big special operation, and the cameras were not installed by the employees of the institution, for this purpose rooms were specially booked in the service security of ukraine. there are already all the videos of these people installing these illegal ones

means of fixation in the rooms where we stayed, where many girls stayed, where they spent the night, were beaten, and so on. given the resonance of this case and the understanding that listening for example and installing video cameras is not such a simple process. do you have any reservations for the ukrainian law enforcement officers, in particular the security service of ukraine, regarding how the investigation may proceed. conditional on the case that has already been started, and if it will be started based on other appeals, of course we have warnings, but in any law enforcement agency there is light side and the dark side and... there are different units and different departments, obviously there are those who did this task from the authorities, there are those who did not know about it, and we now believe that she took these hard drives with archived videos, exactly the bright side, which is interested in identifying those who installed these video cameras in our rooms. alisa, your

understanding of the situation, the understanding of the situation from colleagues will not change, that is, after all, it was done from... your point of view at the request of representatives of someone from the authorities, yes. thank you, and and finally, if possible , please clarify what and whether the representatives of law enforcement agencies have any claims against your employees, current or former, given the facts that have been made public? currently, we are not aware of any claims by law enforcement agencies against the representatives of our team. thank you so much for stepping in and talking about the situation. alisa yurchenko, deputy editor-in-chief of biosinfo. about the last details in the context of that story, which acquired its own resonance value in ukraine. you are watching freedom of the mornings, write to us in the comments, in particular, if you are watching us from the northern regions of ukraine, what is your situation, have there really been more incidents of shelling there, and what do you know, is it possible to have some information from representatives of local authorities about evacuation, at this moment

, yevgeny silkin is joining us, he is the assistant to the commander of the united forces of the armed forces of ukraine, my greetings to you, we... greetings , please tell me if you can briefly describe the current situation in the northern regions of ukraine, how much more frequent shelling from the side of the russian federation and about the activation of the drg, if you can tell me? a stabilization operation is currently underway in the north of our country, i would like to note that in addition to countering the subversive and intelligence groups you mentioned, we are also carrying out anti-aircraft operations. of defense , six kamikaze drones of the shahit type were destroyed tonight in our operational zone , this is a very large number, because the guys make an impression with ordinary machine gun installations, these are mobile fire group, it should be noted that at the moment on

the territory of the russian federation... the enemy has created and maintains a group of troops of about 20 thousand people, they are engaged in constant training, they are strengthening defense structures, they are constantly shelling our territories, as in the direction of sumy, sumy, as well as from the chernihiv direction, in addition, in order to... disrupt the so-called stability in our region, the enemy uses sabotage and reconnaissance groups, and this year alone there have already been five attempts to work on our territory sabotage and reconnaissance groups that existed, their activities were stopped in time, and it should

be noted that only last year there were about... 60 such attempts, but you can focus on the activities of the drg, what it looks like, where they come from, how they are behaving, what is the number of people in this drg, what is the danger they pose, because from the information we have, in particular from open sources and from what was talked about in the armed forces, it is even said that they can capture civilians, as i understand people, er, the fact is that a very insidious enemy is fighting against us, on the other side there are... units of the gru, the general staff of the russian federation, these are well-armed, well-trained officers who have already gone through many military conflicts, participated in combat operations , so with them, well, it is very difficult to resist them, but all

the residents of the border...points, they expose themselves to danger by staying in these settlements, i would note that when i arrived, these russian units are operating, they are operating on on a permanent basis, no operate on a rotational basis, new units arrive, but they're just as well trained, we have information when they arrive, and... they've been training for about a week, they've been studying maps of the area for about a week, because from the... entrance and they carry out their intentions under the cover of night and in places where

they are hidden, they study places where you can go unnoticed, but we also oppose, we have an increased number of people at observation posts, except for the so- called border guards and the observed posts now service. the court and representatives of the armed forces of ukraine are also prepared. we constantly train our anti-sabotage reserves, which include both representatives of the national guard of ukraine and representatives of special operations forces, who are also trained, and also take part in anti-sabotage development artillery group, if we notice the work of a group somewhere, then... we carry out fire damage from artillery and mortars. mr. yevgeny, i thank you for the information, yevgeny silkin, assistant commander of the joint forces of the armed forces

of ukraine, the guest of our broadcast, we talked about the situation in the northern regions of ukraine, where russian forces have become more active, the number of shelling has increased and, in particular, there is a threat of an attack by the drg. road transporters and farmers in romania announce blocking the movement of ukrainian trucks on yet another road. the border crossing will begin blocking at the halmu djakove crossing point, this will be the third crossing point on the romanian-ukrainian border where the movement of trucks is restricted. at the same time , on the eve of the edition of euroects, it was reported that the romanian government reached an agreement with the farmer blocking the border. the state border service of ukraine currently does not know how long the blockade will last, they note that the blockade will not apply to the movement of passenger vehicles and buses. at the same time, the passage of trucks on the polish-ukrainian border has been restored and is carried out as usual. in all directions. polish transporters ended the protest action at the jagodyn dorogusk checkpoint on january 16. it was still the only checkpoint that remained blocked. i

will remind you, the blockade of korton by the poles carriers lasted 2.5 months. they agreed to suspend the border strike until march 1. during this time, representatives of the polish government must fulfill the demands of the protesters, the main of which is to cancel the transport visa-free regime for ukraine. andriy demchenko, spokesman of the state border service. of ukraine joins our broadcast. my greetings to you. congratulations. mr. andriy, please tell us about the checkpoints on the border between poland and ukraine, as of now, what is the situation, how far can trucks safely leave and enter and are there no queues, perhaps, have those that were dissolved? well, luckily there is no blocking now. as you know, on december 6, the direction of the medic shoghini checkpoint was unblocked. and a few days ago , the other three directions were also unblocked, which... continued for a long time, these are the directions of the checkpoints ravaruska and krykivets, which started to go after 4 p.m. and further in

the direction of the checkpoint yagodin after 8 p.m. we note, well, dynamics in both directions. regarding checkpoints at at the ukrainian-romanian border, what is the situation there now, because we know that actual actions were also announced for... today, how many points are not functioning as usual, let's say, and what can we expect next? well, complicated traffic is noted in two directions, as of now, directly, these are the checkpoints porubne siret and krasnoilsk, vikovu desus. it must be understood that actions to block these directions began on saturday. at first, it was only the direction of the porubne checkpoint, later it was also in the direction crossing point krasnoilsk, but on saturday and sunday the actions started sometime during the day,

later on at the end of the day or late in the evening they stopped. now we can see that these directions have actually been blocked around the clock for the last few days, the participants of the blockade , the representatives of the agricultural sector, are at a certain distance from the border on the highways, and actually block the possibility of normal movement of trucks both to and from the border, and there is information that preliminary information about the fact that the checkpoint may also be blocked and the direction of the checkpoint, thank you from the ukrainian side, from the romanian side of tsehalmeu, but at the moment we still have no official confirmation from the romanian side, from the representatives of the border police of romania, well... and actually our changes, our change at the checkpoint, thank you does not notice that the movement is somehow, well, complicated. we still

have about two minutes to go . i would like you and i to discuss the actual illegal crossing of the border by ukrainian men who may try to evade the draft in this way. please tell me, since the beginning of 2024, is there already a possible figure in the state border service, how many men tried to illegally cross the ukrainian border, get into the territory of other countries, and what means they are using for this now, the approaches have somehow changed, let's say, well , i don't have statistics from the beginning of the year. but i can note that, unfortunately, such attempts continue daily, both on the green part of the border, that is, outside the checkpoints, and at the checkpoints, when individuals try to use, in particular, fake documents, but if we speak in the language of statistics, then actually compare 2023 and 2022, then in the 23rd year there is a significant decrease in attempts to cross the border illegally, in some periods we even

see... for example, a decrease in the direction of the green of the border, i.e. outside the checkpoints, on the other hand, is increasing, attempts at illegal crossing using forged documents through the checkpoints are increasing, and actually, if we talk again about the 23rd year, more than 3,300 fake documents that people tried to submit for control, hoping that it would help them cross the border, but i would also like to note that attempts to use fake documents are subject to criminal liability, and we hand over such people to the police for that they further bring people to justice under current law, and also, of course, our work is aimed at exposing such criminal organized groups that specialize in promising people assistance in illegal crossing of the border, take

money for it, quite often neglect the lives of people when they are sent, especially through difficult-to-access mountainous areas, or through mountain rivers along which the border line passes, because of which people can also lose their lives, and in the last period there were several cases when border guards actually saved people who, trying to cross, including the tisza river, for example in transcarpathia, had hypothermia and were practically on the verge of death. mr. andriy, thank you for the information. andriy demchenko, the spokesman of the state border service about the situation at the checkpoints, in particular between romania and ukraine, where there is a specific complication in terms of the crossing of trucks. i thank you for your activity in the chat, it is important to promote quality content. subscribe to radio svoboda's youtube channel, if you haven't done so yet, follow our updates on other social networks. this is the svoboda ranok project, my name is oleg galiv. we traditionally talk about important things at this time.

we will meet you on the air. tomorrow, take care! 10 on the clock, it's time to find out what is happening in ukraine and... the world at this time khrystyna porubiy is working in the studio. a woman died as a result of enemy shelling in chuguyev in kharkiv region. she worked as a boiler plant operator. late in the evening, the russians attacked the city twice. it is not yet known what kind of ammunition - oleg senigubov, the head of the region, said. a 63-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman were also hospitalized with injuries. another victim was treated on the spot. in addition, during the day, the occupiers attacked the

village of maly burluk. of kupyan district, there died peacefully.